We design tailored soft skills and employability training modules – in-house branded or tailor-made. Our work evolves to countries where there is educational reform on public/private funded projects. These are centred on large-scale blended learning training and upskilling solutions. The work we do typically supports teachers and trainers. Offering innovative monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanisms for consultancy is something we do using digital tools and user-friendly platforms. These are designed to measure project impact and sustainability. Unimenta delivers imaginative and creative experiential learning training designed to create change and progression.
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Our work includes a range of projects in emerging markets as well as with corporate clients developing tailored programmes. The consultancy work is linked to core employability skills, developing teachers and trainers, materials development, monitoring and evaluation as well as bespoke design of soft skills training.
Current consultancy projects
This is a large-scale UNICEF/UNESCO project which has produced a comprehensive life skills and subject framework as well as teacher training and capacity development. Our role at 7 Skills For the Future is to evaluate the UNESCO funded component speaking to key project stakeholders in Delhi 4th – 9th April 2019 and produce recommendations for subsequent phases of this programme being rolled out throughout 2019.
This exciting project is all about enhancing language proficiency, digital skills and social issues awareness through the model of peer-led after schools clubs. We are reviewing and shaping the materials produced to-date and travelled out to Surket, Nepal to meet project stakeholders to help revise resources and deliver training.
In 2017 we prepared a Monitoring and Evaluation plan for this four-year donor-funded project working with 40,000 young people graduating from TVET programmes in Tunisia. This project is about upskilling vocational training staff in order to improve employability prospects for the unemployed. Young people are one of the largest unemployed and disenfranchised groups in Tunisia. This project runs from 2017 – 2020 and 7 Skills For the Future hopes to continue to work as the M&E consultant for this project producing M&E tools, implementation plans, local support and training as well as external evaluation.
We conducted a series of online professional development webinars for British Council trainers who deliver communication skills to corporate clients. The professional development focus is on using experiential learning, strengthening facilitation skills and how to handle emerging learning outcome.
Lead researcher on employability and soft skills framework project with the largest NGO in the world BRAC in Bangladesh. This work supports BRAC with linking one of their employability projects with a new soft skills framework and includes working with specific industries to identify relevant Soft Skills competences and their measurement as well as key language requirements. This role includes consulting with key stakeholders and government ministries and having a strong understanding of EU/DfID and UKAid funded projects.
Lead designer and consultant on soft skills and employability training programme working with young graduates in India. This blended learning programme will pilot new digital badges in employability and soft skills by City & Guilds. The role involves that of materials design for pilot programmes as well as support with budgets and financial forecasting to set up on-the-ground institutions and learning centres.
In 2017 Emma Sue published a new study skills book for students, published by Macmillan Palgrave. She will continue to offer Life Skills webinars at the Macmillan Education Online Conferences. In 2017 Emma Sue was delighted to be offering Life Skills coaching to Macmillan’s Work Experience Competition winners.
Consultancy case studies
Andhra Pradesh Employability Skills run in partnership with the British Council India, Andhra Pradesh Government (AP) and Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE). This is an exciting project which complements the British Council’s online Learn English Select programme. Emma Sue was appointed as Team Leader to design and develop a face-to-face syllabus of employability and soft skills to engage university students. It is part of a larger initiative to train and upsklll teachers and trainers in India to equip them to deliver employability and soft skills. 82,000 students have registered for the learner programme across 200 participating institutions across the region. The first students are enrolled and have experienced this innovative programme throughout 2018 and now it has been rolled out across India.
For several years we’ve been working across South Asia undertaking research into employability skills and working with partners British Council, City and Guilds and local sector skills councils. This work informs the redesign of frameworks to help standardise training and qualifications and create clear benchmarks in India and Bangladesh. We’ve presented at Global Education Dialogues in London and Sri Lanka and launched a final report in Delhi, India – click here. Our work in Bangladesh has brought us into contact with NGOs doing amazing work with young people, all kinds of initiatives and helping key stakeholders to consolidate projects and work more closely together. In 2019 we worked on a research project to understand the employability and language needs of migrants in South Asia and developing materials for an exciting digital and employability project for young women in Nepal.
Lead researcher/advisor on teacher education comparator study for the British Council Sri Lanka. This project is all about researching best practice teacher education models in India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore and Pakistan in order to support a major educational reform in Sri Lanka to equip teachers to be able to deliver 21st century and employability skills. The work included the preparation of concept note, rationale and full business report on each country as well as making recommendations for building capacity, implementation processes and best practices on a country as well as an institutional level.
We worked with Pearson Edexcel in South Africa to pilot a set of unique behavioural modules that we designed for young people entering the workplace. These enabled a group of Pioneer Foods employees to work on and strengthen their soft skills through experiential learning. Pioneer Foods are one of the largest food and beverage companies in South Africa.
Throughout 2018 and early 2018 we worked with one of our partners TransformELT to deliver training to 80 middle and secondary school inspectors in Algiers. Our work focused on developing coaching and mentoring skills, leadership skills, dealing with change as well as personal development. We travelled down to Algiers once a month – a rewarding and fun project.
In the UK we worked on a great initiative to introduce more fun at work. “We know positive emotions help make people happy and that, in turn, happy people are productive, loyal and generally have higher levels of wellbeing than those who aren’t. Looking at the findings of this report, if we know that fun can increase effectiveness and productivity at work, why aren’t we doing more to bring fun and play into the workplace?”
In 2017 Emma Sue published a new study skills book for students, published by Macmillan Palgrave. She will continue to offer Life Skills webinars at the Macmillan Education Online Conferences. In 2017 Emma Sue was delighted to be offering Life Skills coaching to Macmillan’s Work Experience Competition winners.
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